Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 154 → 141 of 143
1 category · RankedKorn Ferry Pay
28Judge labels
0First choices
11Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Compensation benchmarkin for enterprise buyers
Rank 145 of 148 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 56% of its 9 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business153 of 155
0%6 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market145 of 148
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise16 of 130
0%13 labels
accepted challenger
In compensation benchmarkin · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Korn Ferry Pay for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation benchmarking data | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 145 of 148 | 56% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 19% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Korn Ferry Pay held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Compensation benchmarkin · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 116 → 136 of 138
Enterprise▼−5Since September 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 5% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 5 → 14 of 115
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation benchmarkin | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 116 → 145 of 148 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Korn Ferry Pay across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Korn Ferry Pay across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct5 labelsNone
Paraphrase12 labelsNone
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained4 labelsNone
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Korn Ferry provides the most robust peer group matching ... Cons: High cost” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · paraphrase prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Avoid: Traditional survey providers like Mercer, Korn Ferry, or Willis Towers Watson” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Compensation benchmarkin · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Traditional enterprise survey vendors like Mercer, Radford, WTW, Korn Ferry, and Culpepper... generally more expensive” GPT-5.4 mini · Compensation benchmarkin · budget prompt · soft negative
“critics... argue their methodology can systematically lag behind real-time market inflation” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · negative prompt · soft negative
“can be useful, but Ravio describes them as manual survey-based systems” Perplexity Sonar · Compensation benchmarkin · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Korn Ferry Pay, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Korn Ferry Pay was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Korn Ferry Pay, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Korn Ferry Pay was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Korn Ferry Pay. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 22 of the 28 answers that named Korn Ferry Pay and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
ravio.com19
salarycube.com16
comprehensive.io12
peoplemanagingpeople.com11
compup.io7
aon.com6
hr-ai-index.com6
zipdo.co6
captivateiq.com5
compensation-iq.com5
Ninety-three of the ninety-three domain citations in answers naming Korn Ferry Pay came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
kornferry.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Korn Ferry Pay takes 0% of first choices and Pave takes 19%.ShowHide
Search and answers
kornferry.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Korn Ferry Pay takes 0% of first choices and Pave takes 19%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “benchmarking providers”
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not in the top ten
Position for “salary benchmarking data provider”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 40 a month (“korn ferry pay”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 107 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 168,994 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 12,549 · 1,806 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 19,753
- Paid Google search
- 6 searches its ads show for, about 45 clicks and $36 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 145 of 148 in compensation benchmarkin
Segment leader
19%
Pave
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 28 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 22 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on kornferry.com
10,210
subdomains included
Content
3,758
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
600 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 3,073 | 1 | 2026-09-11 | Pay equity, Workforce planning | |
| News or press | 276 | 2 | 2026-09-23 | Pay equity | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 214 | 1 | 2026-10-13 | Performance management, People analytics | |
| Podcast or video | 151 | 1 | 2026-07-15 | ||
| Conference or event | 20 | 2 | 2026-09-16 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 9 | 0 | 2026-04-14 | ||
| Template or tool | 8 | 1 | 2026-07-07 | ||
| Comparison | 5 | 0 | 2026-04-20 | ||
| Report or ebook | 2 | 0 | 2026-04-04 |
Most recent
- 2026-10-135 global lessons from eu pay transparency webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-23Amber foucault joins korn ferry news or press
- 2026-09-16Leadership assessments virtual in person comparison conference or event
- 2026-09-11Financial services workforce survey 2026 blog
- 2026-09-03Korn ferry to participate in the goldman sachs communacopia technology conference 2026 conference or event
- 2026-07-15Podcast 73 the age of high performance podcast or video
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page kornferry.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name pay equity (11); 0 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Korn Ferry Pay
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Korn Ferry Pay; a claim can dispute any of them.
Korn Ferry 7Korn Ferry (Hay Group) 1
Follow Korn Ferry Pay
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Korn Ferry Pay is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Korn Ferry Pay is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Certifications
- CCPACyber EssentialsDORAEU AI ActEU-US DPFFERPAGDPRISO 14001:2015
- Not stated on the pages read
- Positioning, who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting, customers
What Korn Ferry Pay's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: kornferry.com, trust.kornferry.com, kornferry.com/capabilities. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Korn Ferry Pay's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Korn Ferry Pay, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Korn Ferry Pay by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Korn Ferry Pay is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Korn Ferry Pay, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.